Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be ...compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Taking a good mouthful, I felt as though I had taken liquid fire; the tomato was chile colorado, or red pepper, of the purest kind.... It nearly killed me, and I saw Gómez' eyes twinkle for he saw that his share of supper was increased.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an except...ionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »